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The Building
In a run-down building in the last stages of disrepair and decay, a group of misfits, freaks, and thugs live out their ill-sorted lives in a black comedy portrait of urban blight.
371 pages, Hardcover
First published December 12, 1985
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Thomas Glynn
8 booksAmerican author of four novels (two of which were edited by Gordon Lish), a hybrid novel-cum-carpentry manual, and uncollected short stories.
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September 26, 2019
One or the most darkly funny books I've ever read.
July 9, 2012
Dense black comedy, it weakens substanially when the plot kicks in. Some great chapters. I lived near where it is set. I wonder which of the buildings around st. johns it is base on.
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